Personal Self Portrait

What You're Looking At

1. Sweatshirt: I love to wear hoodies, sweatshirts, and jackets.
2. MP3 Player: I listen to music almost constantly. I pop in my headphones in the morning and fall asleep to music on my speaker at night.
3. Playstation Logo: Most of my all time favorite games came out as a Playstation exclusive, so I have a bit of an affinity for Sony
4. Digital Drawing Pad: I love drawing and I constantly use digital drawing software to do so.
5. Bernese Mountain Dog: One of my favorite breeds and one i'd love to have when I'm older.
6. Beanie: I love wearing beanies more than other hats, especially if they have a bill.
7. Fox Half: One of my favorite things to draw are furry things like dogs, cats and pandas, especially foxes.
8. Anime half: I consider my drawing style very similar to that of standard anime stuff. I can do other styles to fit certain things, but it's the one I know the best.
9. Koeniggsegg CCXR (The Car): My absolute favorite car at the current time. It is also one nobody else knows, which is a good and a bad thing. It's unique, but you can't mention it to anyone cause they don't even know what it is. 
10. California: My homestate
11. Ice cream: Vanilla Ice cream is probably one of my favorite desserts.
12. Snowflake: I love the snow! If it wasn't so cold and dangerous to drive in, I'd move to Alaska just to be around it more.
13. Nascar Emblem: I like to watch it when I can. I used to spend early mornings watching it with my dad.
14. Game controller: I love video games. So much so that I am dedicated to finding a career in Game Development and Design.
15. Crunchy Roll Logo: A site and application dedicated to the streaming of anime shows and movies as well as good old asian classics like IP Man. I love anime and enjoy drawing, watching, and listening to it.
16. Cartoon Network Logo: I grew up on Cartoon Network. Courage the Cowardly Dog, Johnny Bravo, Powerpuff Girls, Samurai Jack, this channel used to be my jam.
17. Night City Background: I'm all about that night life...at least when it comes to strolling around at night. There is something so cool and almost comforting about the soft, orange glow that bathes the city streets at night.

Reflection

1. In this project, the goal was to create an embodiment and representation of yourself and the interests you feel define you. It's an exercise in creativity and analyzation of your basic photoshop skills.
2. For me, the process worked out very well. I use photoshop in projects and just personal work all the time. With this prior experience, I was able to get the project done with relative ease.
3. The most challenging part for me was finding the images. A handful of pictures were very grainy or just ended up not suited for the project. 
4. If I was going to do this project over again, I would probably look to design the picture itself in a different way. Use a different background, choose different items, that sort of stuff.
5. Photoshop is a great program. With it you can cut out a section from an image, shape, color, resize, and edit it to whatever preference you'd like, and paste it effortlessly on to another image, creating all sorts of cool thing.
6. As a career, I want to go into Digital design specifically for video games. This is a rudimentary and useful skill to have, as it will have real world application in my career.